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"Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day."

In this book, famed author Lafcadio Hearn presents 14 fascinating stories--including deathless ghosts and yokai, local folklore and haunted places, as well as Buddhist traditions. This edition includes a new foreword by Michael Dylan Foster which explains the book's importance as a Japanese cultural and literary classic.

The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore--the spirits of the dead and the spirits of the living. In Ghostly Japan examines both and, in the process, offers a fascinating window into Japan's supernatural and spiritual world.

The 14 stories include:
・Fragment"--A young pilgrim encounters a mountain of skulls and is shown a terrible truth
・Ingwa-banashi"--On her deathbed, a dying wife bequeaths to her young rival a sinister and horrific gift
・A Passional Karma"--A spectral beauty transcends death to return for her handsome samurai lover
・Story of a Tengu"--A priest saves the life of a Yokai monk and is granted a wish, but the outcome is not as expected

霊の日本 英文版
再話作家の第一人者であるハーンが日本の霊を描く14編をまとめた短編集。

著：Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was the son of an Anglo-Irish father and a Greek mother. He was one of the earliest writers to relay stories of supernatural Japan to the West. He arrived in Japan in 1890 and fell in love with the country and its people. He married a samurai's daughter, became a Japanese citizen and a Buddhist and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo.